Quotes About Figure And Ground

#1. Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.

Jorie Graham

#2. When love wins, then it wins in fact only through love. But those who love cannot guarantee the victory of love. One can believe in the victory of love only in the sense that one believes in the identity of God and love.

Eberhard Jungel

#3. The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

James Mercer

#4. The more guilt and shame that we have buried within ourselves, the more compelled we feel to seek relief through sin.

Brennan Manning

#5. I'm #alive Waiting for #help Where r we suppose 2 go? #endoftheworldsucks

Sharon Trembley

#6. Oh, it was real, all right," she says. "We lived it; we were there. If you go through something and put up with it even if you want to get away from it more than anything in the whole world, then it was definitely bloody real.

Patrick Ness

#7. We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

Ellen Stofan

#8. Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.

Rick Riordan

#9. Pornography and obscenity ... work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground
situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

Marshall McLuhan

#10. I do believe that Instagram has put a stake in the ground and we're growing more quickly than anyone. Is there something in there we could do to make it a multi-billion dollar business? I think we can figure out something along the way.

Kevin Systrom

#11. The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

Marshall McLuhan

#12. In the Gestalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/ground
relationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is ever perceived
except in relation to a background.

Alan W. Watts

#13. While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

Marshall McLuhan

#14. We ran hunched along a subterranean corridor, discarded animal bones underfoot, the ceiling brushing our heads, past things I tried not to see - a slumped figure in a corner, sleepers shivering on miserable mats of straw, a boy in rags lying on the ground with a beggar's pail bangled around one arm.

Ransom Riggs

#15. I've known the anxiety of being completely lost, flying at night. It can be extreme. You're travelling at close to five hundred miles an hour, and every minute that goes by takes you further into being lost unless you get help from ground radar somewhere or somehow figure out the error.

James Salter

#16. If it's a choice between selling a million Pocket Planners and getting the chance to be with you, I'll figure out some other way to get this product off the ground.

Bella Andre

#17. Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.

Ron Kind

#18. I never buy plane tickets out of a country until I'm in the country, so I get on the ground, figure out what I need, where I'm going, how much time I need, and schedule as I go along.

Brandon Stanton

#19. When Aaron arrived at my place - a ground-floor studio fitting my full-size bed, desk, and TV - he came bearing gifts: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and two red tension balls. "I figure they'll help you relax and write," he said. We watched my favorite relationship

Janet Mock

#20. I was born and raised Catholic.

Tom Araya

#21. Verbal hemophilia. Why can't I clot?

Scott Mebus

#22. A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#23. Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. The very fact that we long for the change we do is a sign that we are meant to have it. Our very dissatisfaction with our weaknesses and struggles points to the reality that continuing to live in them is not our destiny.

Stasi Eldredge

#25. India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.

Narendra Modi

#26. I can't help it, Alexis," he said "I want to make you think too much ... and then I want to hear the things you've been thinking too much.

Katie Alender

#27. Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

Marshall McLuhan